Megalodon Stand

The "Give Your Fossil a Stage" Megalodon Tooth Display Stand 🦈

My son-in-law Evan loves megalodon teeth, but a real one runs into the hundreds of dollars. So he printed one instead, and it ended up lying flat on a shelf looking like a printed part rather than a fossil. I told him I could fix that. This is the stand I designed for it, and it now sits on the red shelf in his kitchen.

🟩 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗠𝗔𝗞𝗘𝗦 𝗜𝗧 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞

▸ 𝗖𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝗿𝗺𝘀, 𝗣𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗗𝗼𝘄𝗻 — A pair of arms hold the tooth point-down, echoing the way it sat in the jaw. It reads as a specimen on display instead of an object on a shelf.

▸ 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘄𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗱, 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗱 — A vertical support on the opposite side balances the arms, so the tooth leans forward for viewing without the stand tipping. Nothing grips or glues to the tooth; it lifts straight out whenever you want to handle it.

▸ 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗔𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘀 — Sized to the widely printed Lapworth Museum megalodon scan below, rather than designed as a generic cradle and hoped for the best.

▸ 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗣𝗶𝗲𝗰𝗲, 𝗡𝗼 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 — 134 × 108 × 40 mm, prints flat in 2 h 36 m for about 48 g.

▸ 𝗗𝗲𝗯𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝗫 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸 — On the underside.

🟩 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗧𝗢𝗢𝗧𝗛 𝗜𝗦 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗜𝗡𝗖𝗟𝗨𝗗𝗘𝗗

This download is the stand only. The tooth it was designed around is "Megalodon fossil shark tooth", specimen BIRUG 14906, scanned and published by The Lapworth Museum of Geology at the University of Birmingham through MyMiniFactory's Scan the World project, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Download the tooth from the original listing: https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-megalodon-fossil-shark-tooth-81202

Please credit the museum. Copies of this scan have been re-uploaded to other sites by people who are not the original creators.

🟩 𝗣𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗧 𝗦𝗘𝗧𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦

Tree supports required · 0.12mm layer height · PLA

The cradling arms overhang, so tree supports on auto at a 30° threshold are part of the shipped profile — about 1.5 g of support that twists off by hand. Sliced and printed on a Creality Hi with a 0.4 mm nozzle.

Give it a stage. 🦈